Nostalgia

shiels

shiels

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Rudewhy said:
“Nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time - the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into a private or collective mythology, to revisit time like space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition.”

“As for time, it is forever shrinking. Oppressed by multitasking and managerial efficiency, we live under a perpetual time pressure. The disease of this millennium will be called chronophobia or speedomania, and its treatment will be embarrassingly old-fashioned. Contemporary nostalgia is not so much about the past as about vanishing the present.”

“This kind of nostalgia characterizes national and nationalist revivals all over the world, which engage in the antimodern myth-making of history by means of a return to national symbols and myths and, occasionally, through swapping conspiracy theories. Restorative nostalgia manifests itself in total reconstructions of monuments of the past, while reflective nostalgia lingers on ruins, the patina of time and history, in the dreams of another place and another time.”
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This is good. Matches my experience of the achingly sweet outside time feeling of certain dreams. can tap into that hypnagogic nostalgic bliss when very stoned too. I have a notebook i used in my early 20s and some of the pages are specifically focused on memories that evoke a certain feeling. being very stoned gives access to these memories . and i've written a very long and quite embarrassing list of moments that evoke intense melancholy and nostalgia. its full of things from early childhood that i havent thought about much since, dont exactly carry about with me. but when the feeling is triggered the memories are much more vivid, and allows more information to retrieved
 
luka

luka

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I also really miss the gentle melancholy decay and emptiness of east London. The dowdier, more self-effacing built environments of my childhood, muted colours, greys, browns. Everything screams for attention now in a very exhausting way. It's a very shrill environment today.
 
shiels

shiels

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ardoyne discos when it's still bright, early mornings in dunluce, playing cribby in the mist at 6am with grainne before a deanby trip, at a special needs centre playing football with a deflated ball
 
shiels

shiels

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luka said:
Everything screams for attention now in a very exhausting way. It's a very shrill environment today.
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yes, everything feels utilised and i can find myself nostalgic about not being sold to, when everything wasn't calling to me and wasn't identified with or rejected, when i knew less and couldn't categorise, compartmentalise, break down and plan and the environment had more of an impressionistic effect on me. i think this is why dreams and being very stoned can evoke the feeling because a certain mode of time and space compartmentalisation melts away a little, the navigator
 
luka

luka

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Having a breakdown in the street, on your knees clutching your head screaming Just Leave Me Alone Why Won't They Leave Me Alone Make It Stop
 
R

RWY

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I've long felt nostalgic for much of the environmental stimulli of my early childhood which has since disappeared - the demolished tower blocks, the scrapped trains, the signage and graphic design of everyday life which has been discarded and replaced countless times. I think Luke touched upon these things as triggers for nostalgia in another thread where I shared that video of the old red, white and blue Network South East trains at New Cross Gate station in the 1990s.
 
nilprenia

nilprenia

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Usually succumb to nostalgia when I've got nothing else going on. Would serve me better to treat it as a warning signal than to wallow in it
 
constant escape

constant escape

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Music is what gets me there, namely the alt rock that was on rotation at KROQ in the naughts. Some MGMT, a couple Smashing Pumpkins, a few from presumable one-hit wonders.

Here's a playlist I made two or three years ago. KROQ included these, and also some slightly harder rock.

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